Elements & Principles
The basic components used to create art
What is the Element of Art
Rock Engravings
What is petroglyphs
The process of carving out details in pottery
What is Incising
A semicircular niche, or recess in the wall
What is an Aspe
Known as the high potential of human nature
What is Humanism
Guidelines that artists must use to create certain effects in their art
What is the Principles of art?
A flat stone used from grinding paint
What is palette
Style of pottery that was popular in the 6th and 5th century, with light-coloured figures against a black background
What is Red-figure pottery
Another name for the material used to make pages
Art that focuses on depictions of natural scenery
What is Landscape Paintings
The foreground or objects and figures
What is Positive Space
The system of writing used in Ancient Mesopotamia
What artists used to elicit emotions from the viewer
What is Expressionism
A Muslim place of worship
What is a Mosque
Style of art that was unnatural and gave off a sense of discomfort
What is Mannerism
The component or components of an artwork that give a sense of action
What is Movement
Carved or inscribed upright stone
What is Stele
Man-made structures that the Romans built to carry water
What is Aqueducts
Manuscripts that are decorated, generally with gold and silver
What is Illuminated Manuscripts
This refers to a shadowy, dark setting
What is Tenebrism
The 'wholeness' of a composition.
What is Unity
A creature with the head of a man and body of a bull or lion
What is Lamassus
Funerary art comes from what ancient civilization
What is Etruscan
Arches on the exterior of the building in order to support the weight of the roof
What is a Flying Buttress
Means "light-dark"
What is Chiaroscuro